18. Persons with Disabilities Act, No. 14 of 2003

The statute provides for the rights and rehabilitation of persons with disabilities to achieve equalization of opportunities for persons with disabilities.

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Section 21 of the Act provides that persons with disabilities are entitled to a barrier-free and disability-friendly environment to enable them to have access to buildings, roads and other social amenities, and assistive devices and other equipment to promote their mobility. This provision implies that in the construction of residential houses, there is an implied obligation to ensure that such houses are barrier-free and facilitate the mobility of persons with physical disabilities.

· There are other stringent requirements that must consider persons with disabilities but they focus on public buildings (or those which ordinarily admit members of the public)-which largely ousts residential houses.